so let's call jeff sessions what he is. jeff sessions is a racist if he takes on this action.t is clear. we know it, so let's stop lying around with it. anthony papa, what is your understanding of what the attorney general is calling for right now? ericy, i agree with holder, this is totally dumb on crime. to go back to a failed proven toicy and two and the -- and tell prosecutors to convict people at the harshest possible sentence is totally wrong will stop myself as an example, first-time nonviolent offender, i was asked a sentence to two 15 a life sentences under the rockefeller drug laws which was mandated by mandatory minimum sentences from the same sentencing laws that became in the federal system that now sessions wants prosecutors to use to sentence even low-level, nonviolent drug offenders or even people who are addicted to years inmany, many prison. it is a proven fact that this oficy wastes billions dollars and more importantly, iny human lives are wasted this action in the past. amy: i want to go back to carl hart. attorney general jeff sessions has released this m

it isn't jeff sessions who fires james comey. but trump relies on a recommendation from jeff sessions. jeff sessions relies on the word of his deputy attorney general who talks all about the clinton case. well, you raised earlier a great point. isn't jeff sessions supposed to be recused from the clinton case? he said that when he took office and, look, jeff sessions on the campaign trail talked a lot about the clinton case. there were good reasons for him to be recused. it is an interesting issue. how can he endorse those findings if he's supposed to be recused from the case? >> matt covering the justice department for "the washington post" on what is a remarkable day to be covering the justice department for "the washington post." your paper has done a lot to -- almost more than anything to increase our understanding of this as a country. i'm sure you're proud to be working there tonight but also incredibly busy. thanks for being with us, matt. >> thank you. >>> joining us is senator sheldon whitehouse, democrat are rhode island

what's behind the attorney general jeff session and his change of direction? guest: i'm not sure why we're going in this direction. the data proves these reforms make us safer. it could be politics the. but i don't understand that either because the the polling that my organization has done and about a dozen states around the the country show that these reforms have a lot of support across the spectrum. host: let's open up the phone lines. the e'll show you what attorney general had to say hen the announcement was made. our guest is holly harris who has been involved in republican politics in kentucky but also have a background in legal issues as well. guest: my whole life. the ted my career at justice cabinet in kentucky and wrote the brief defending the lethal injection protocol and obviously my views have evolved a built. host: get to your calls in a moment. let's hear from the attorney general talking about the sentencing guidelines. >> going forward i have empowered our prosecutors to charge and pursue the most serious offense as i believe the law require

> he's been aggressive on drug crimes for more than 40 years, even two years ago, then senator jeff sessionshat would've eased federal sentencing for marijuana use. as no surprise that as attorney general sessions is resending the policies signed by eric holder and putting mandatory minimum sentences back in place. under eric holder and someone was busted for drugs, a prosecutor could choose not to disclose the amount of drugs and that allowed the drugs to the mic to -- meet being caught with 100 grams of heroin means a minimum of five years in prison. the aclu says jeff session is repeatedly failed war on drugs experiment and his policy will disproportionally hurt minorities paired attorney general eric holder called the policy dumb on crime. the national association of u.s. attorneys said the new guidelines will make the public safer and attorney general jeff sessions it says it is part of the president's promise to keep america safe. listen again. >> we are seeing an increase of violent crime in our cities particularly in baltimore, chicago, memphis, and milwaukee, st. louis, and many oth

it was done at the -- jeff session actually recused himself from the russian investigation because of his own contact with russians that he didn't initially disclose and it's being justified with apparently no sense of irony, on the basis of director comey's handling of the investigation of hillary clinton, which candidate trump celebrated at the time and praised director comey for. that's what this is. it's also unprecedent, potentially explosive. a lot to cover. i understand this was being planned for over a week, what have you learned? >> reporter: we do know that something that president trump had been considering, what we're being told by senior administration officials the deputy attorney general was confirmed two weeks ago, he had time to look over james comey's turn your, and we have seen the letters which are essentially an indictment of the handling of hillary clinton's emails. they said they no longer had faith in comey's ability to lead the department, they took this recommendation and he drafted this letter. but there's questions about the timing of this, why this is all

jeff sessions is a fool. before they passed the prohibition of alcohol, there were no alcohol gangs. when they passed the law, the crime rate went up 70%. before they passed the drug laws , there were no murderous drug gangs. pass the laws, and went up 100%. they repealed the alcohol law 13 years after they passed it, and it went back down 70% and broke up all the murderous alcohol games. -- gangs. it don't take a rocket scientist to figure out what you should do with the drug laws. if you repeal the drug laws, you cut the crime rate in half. this is a fascist country, a police state nation. got sixd india have times more people than we do, but we have more locked up than they do, and we are supposed to be a free country? host: terry in indiana. reaction from members of congress on friday and throughout the weekend. senator dick durbin is the minority whip in the senate. he says "this new policy contradicts consensus to reduce sentences for nonviolent drug offenders." he also says it would separate their fami

done on the recommendation of the current attorney generalic jeff sessions. the same sessions that had recused himself because of his own contact with russians he didn't initially disclose and it's being justified on the basis of comey's handling of the investigation of hillary clinton which candidate trump celebrated and praised director comey for and nearly unprecedenteunpreced potentially explosive. i understand this was being planned over a week. >> we know this is something president trump has been considering. what we'rine being told is he w confirmed two weeks ago, the deputy attorney general. he had time to pull together the indictment of comey's handling of hillary clinton's emails. he talked to jeff sessions and they agreed they no longer had faith in comey's ability to lead the department. they took that to the president and he signed off on it. why this is all happening now when this is information that the president has celebrated in the past and is not new to this administration. >> the letter the president sent to the now former director comey

that recommendation coming from the attorney general jeff sessions, also his deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein, notably jeff sessions who recused himself from this russia investigation has recommended the firing of the man who is now overseeing that investigation at the fbi. this is a startling series of events. this is not politics as usual. this is very bizarre and unusual what we've witnessed over the course of this last 30 minutes or so. we have received a statement from the press secretary sean spicer just a short time ago where basically he says that

>> tonight justice department officials are telling cnn that attorney general jeff sessions did not disclose meetings he had last year with russian officials when he applied for security clearance. this is new information from the justice department. this is the latest example of sessions not listing contacts he had with russian officials earlier this year. earlier this year he came under whithering criticism from democrats after it was revealed he did not disclose the same contacts with the russian ambassador during the senate confirmation hearings. senate met with kysilak at least two times and he did not list that on the form. he was required to list any contact he had or his family had with quote a foreign government or representatives or the past seven years. now since sessions failed to disclose these same meetings led him to recuse himself from all matters related to the russian investigation, though he said he does not recall discussing campaign matters, wolf, with meetings with kysliak. >> how could he not have disclosed these mootings? >> well, collin perez was told initially sessi

jeff sessions who has recused himself, why was he involved in this decision? why was he involved to fire the guy in charge of the russia investigation? >> the attorney general reports to the president of the united states. this had nothing to do with russia. as much as somebody must be getting $50 every time the word is said, i'm convinced, on tv. this has nothing to do with russia. it's everything to do with whether the current fbi director has the president's confidence and can faithfully and capably execute his duties. the deputy attorney general decided that was not the case. he wrote a very long memorandum about it. he presented that to the attorney general. the attorney general presented it to the president. the president took the recommendations as he says in his brief, a very powerful letter today. he took the recommendations and he agreed that the only way to restore confidence and trust -- public trust and confidence in its vital law force -- enforcement mission, that of the fbi, was to have a new director. >> kellyanne conway, appreciate your time t

that was jeff sessions.nd every other paper in this country is this disgraceful picture. >> one of the worst ever. >> yeah. >> you can't get worse than that one. >> and the president is on an overseas trip. >> on that note, walter, we'll be watching for the series genius based on your best-selling book. you have a way to tie this all together. >> yeah. this has happened before. and i think something comparable to this was the mccarthy era when there were just lies all over the place. and einstein, a lot smarter than some of the people we have now running the government today, was actually very worried. he had seen the way that j. edgar hoover, the fbi, all these things were playing out. and he said i've seen this before t happened in russia. it happened in germany. this is why i came to america, to escape it. three or four years later, the press, in the form of edward r.morrow, righteous people in the republican party in the form of dwight eisenhower and all, had finally cleaned up the mess and got rid of mc

attorney for the southern district of alabama, jeff sessions has to develop strong relationships across the federal law enforcement community. such collaboration is more than critical than ever as our country faces unprecedented threats. sessions, onral behalf of the men and women of the sergeants benevolent association of new york city, it is my privilege to bestow on you a honorary mentorship -- membership in recognition of your commitment to do what is right for the safety of our communities and for having the backs of mann force met in new york city and across this nation. i present to you this plaque. the certificate is to be signed by the officers on this stage. thank you. sen. sessoin: thank you some. i will cherish that. i want to thank all of you. all of you walk the streets everyday and put your life on the line every day. i respect that association and the work you do to make your city better and safer. to bean honor for me here. i am proud that the rank and file consider me a friend of the new york police department. you know how much i respect you and the groundbreaking wor

seeing is jeff sessions going into bunker mode. safest thing he can do right now. attorney general rosenstein and when he said, hey, i'm not the fall guy here. oh, it was in the works a long time. oh, the fbi morale. it keeps getting rebutted. a symbol of dysfunction in the white house because the only very few aides were in on this decision from the get go and they only told the press staff about an hour before it happened. no time to come up with a long-time strategy and alleviate many of the unforced errors being made. >> we have to make that the last word, thank you, guys, for being with us. we appreciate it. we are waiting because any second now we'll hear from andrew mccabe and we'll have that live as soon as it starts. >>> and don't miss tonight's one-on-one interview lester holt talking to president donald trump from the white house only on nbc "nightly news" with lester holt. >> you don't want to miss "snl" melissa mccarty is hosting. i think we all know what that means. ♪ i feel charming oh, so charming ♪ ♪ so pretty that

is jeff sessions deputy at the department of justice. those were the two people who provided the pretextural explanation for why james comey had to be fired, an explanation concerning hillary clinton's e-mails that later was essentially completely undermined, trashed, and denied by the president who insists it was his decision to fire james comey because he was thinking about that fake trump russia investigation. a pressing question here now that director comey has been fired is what is going to happen to the active trump-russia investigations at the fbi in the wake of that firing, right? those questions are made all the more pressing by the revelations over the course of this week that the investigations into the scandal were expanding and accelerating at the time james comey was fired. well, now because it's friday night, now there's new news tonight out of washington about the expansion and acceleration of another part of the investigation, not the part happening in the fbi, which we already know was expanding and accelerating, the ne

that from jeff sessions.be a shift from what we've seen over the past eight years or so. remember, law and order candidate is what president trump said he would do as president and jeff sessions is with him on that. so watch this story as it develops across the country. >> shannon: well, kellyanne conway calling out democrats being hypocrites. she says some of them wanted him gone just last year. >> in march 41% of democrats said they had an unfavorable view of jim comey to 12% of democrats who said it was favorable. why was it 41 unfavorable? democratic leaders were out there trashing this guy all fall. now they want to make him a martyr. >> shannon: former deputy campaign manager for martin o'malley, mercedes schlapp is a fox news contributor. i want to show you a tweet that sums up this whole entire thing. the president picking up a tweet last year from rosey o'donnell saying fire comey. he tweeted we finally agree on something, rosie. >> if you're resorting to rosie o'donnell to justify your unprecedented

jeff sessions did not disclose meetings he had with russian officials when he applied for top secret security clearance. this is the form sessions filled out. on page 76, which i hold here in my handled, it required sessions to list "any contact with a foreign government or its representatives over the past seven years." it includes specific mention of embassy and consulates. sessions met at least twice with the russian ambassador last year alone. on this form he didn't list either meeting. this as the new york times reports the russians tried to use paul manafort to influence president trump. we are covering these breaking stories from all details and we begin with phil mattingly on capitol hill. want to begin with manu raj u on the breaking news about attorney general sessions. what are you learning? >> erin, justice department officials say attorney general jeff sessions did not disclose meetings he had last year when he applied for the security clearance. just another example. remember earlier this year he came under criticism after it was revealed he didn't disclose meetings with

look, let's start with jeff sessions.nn is reporting that he did not disclose meetings with russian officials on a security clearance form, but jeff sessions, his office says the fbi told him he didn't have to. how do you see it? >> well, i guess it really depends on whether he was in his official capacity as a senator or whether he was as a campaign associate. i think there's a difference there, and we don't know that and won't know that for some time. >> but if he was as a senator, you're never not a senator, right? but if he did discuss anything in his role as a senator, would it be okay then not to list it on the security clearance form? >> i would believe so. >> all right. >> all right. so, and by the way, that's what his team is saying, that they were told, look, you don't have to do this. as a senator, you don't have to disclose these meetings you have with ambassadors, et cetera. moving on to some words you used -- >> can i add one thing? if he was in a role a campaign associate meeting with kislyak in the campaig

i hope this isn't what we see under jeff sessions.his is what we all fear. >> page. >> i think they really caused the problem that led to the ultimate indictment and conviction. i agree with everyone else so far, it's ridiculous we're spending resources to convict someone like this. >> jeff. >> i thought for a moment she was on a united airlines flight when they drug her out of there. i was a state lawmaker. you have to maintain decorum in these sledge slative hearings. but you have to disrupt something, and she wasn't doing anything disruptive. >> she was in the back of the room, and we could note that. and we could barely hear her. to suggest she was disruptive is just ridiculous. >> two years in prison, mark? >> it's absurd. it's a political prosecution that is a very fearful step we're taking. if this is legacy we'll be get, we are in trouble. >> can anything happen from fear, can the charges be dropped? what can happen the. >> don, there is a sentencing hearing that i think is going to take place in june. and she's facing two mis

so the significance of this, and also come jeff sessions, the attorney general weighing in here whene explicitly recused himself. let's go to that moment in march when attorney general jeff sessions said he would recuse himself from any investigation into alleged russian meddling in the 2016 u.s. presidential election. recusal.ff recommended they said that since i had involvement with the campaign, i should not be involved in any campaign investigation. i've studied the rules and andidered their comments evaluation. i believe those recommendations are right and just. therefore, i have recused myself in the matters that deal with the trump campaign. the exact language of that recusal is in the press release that we will give to you. i've said this "i have now decided to recuse myself from any existing or future investigations of any matter relating in any way to the campaigns for president of the united states." amy: this is really stunning. time, trumpt the was furious that sessions was recusing himself. though, hugh harley has recused himself. they're saying this came from rosenstei

number one, what is jeff sessions doing involved in this.ure you have on tape somewhere when he recused himself, he said he will have nothing do with the russia investigation in any way shape or form, directly or indirectly, and yet he is strinvolved in fig the guy who is leegd the investigation for the fooik. numb fbi. number two, the timing as you pointed out doesn't make sense. they supposedly fired him for stuff he did last summer or last fall. and suddenly now they say oh, well, he's got to go. they could have fired him onnian 21st if that was something that really bothered them. and there is another little subl thing about t sub thing about the timing. you will t all the memos were dated yesterday. it all came together in a matter of hours, whereas it took 18 days to on fired mike flynn. so that is -- the timing just doesn't pass the straight face test in terms of what is the real motivation for this. the other piece is the complaints about comey were plig, that he -- he once testified that he has a political tin ear. he's not very goo

but isn't jeff sessions supposed to be recused from these?hy they said it was about the clinton thing because of his general role of oversight. >> that it was beyond the russia investigation and the russia investigation is what he was recused from. but we're talking in the realm of the real and the realm of the real sets the policy of of course he shouldn't have been in these meetings. but that is all out the window given what we are beginning to understood about what happened here and whether or not it was about the russia investigation, whether or not it was about the fact that the fbi asked for more resources and signalled to the white house that this is getting real and maybe even getting closer to the white house or whether it was an attack on the president's ego and maybe his sweetest spot, which is the integrity of his election when he watched james comey a week ago testify and talk about being mildly nauseous at the notion of potentially changing the outcome of the election and making donald trump president. that is what i am told rea

another great way not to laugh at jeff sessions is to think about how horribly racist he is.nate committee denied sessions a federal judgeship because he was deemed too racist. you know how racist you had to be to be considered too racist in the 80s? [ light laughter ] they were so racist, we haven't even unpacked it all yet. people still have yet to get mad about "walk like an egyptian." and you know that's coming. [ light laughter ] just think about all those broke racist games and you will be fine. but you will not be fine, if you think, jefferson beauregard sessions, stop slurping mint juleps. [ light laughter ] do not think that. even though he looks like he could grant wishes, be careful cause he cannot. unless your wishes to have three-fifths of a vote. [ audience ohs ] ♪ these are my jeff sessions just when i thought i said i like -- ♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause ] really, you should not laugh at jeff sessions. he cannot take the teasing. if you want to laugh at someone, laugh at this guy. he loves it. this has been, "how not to laugh at jeff sessions." ♪ [ cheers and app

. >> and willie nelson has a message for jeff sessions. smoke pot. >> huh?> why the 84-year-old country music hall of famer is telling the attorney general, the nation's top cop, to grab a joint and toke up. that story ahead in the it is friday, may 19th. ♪ >> from abc news, this is "world news now." >> something tells me jeff sessions is not going along with that plan. >> i don't think he is. i don't think -- he's like, that's all a ruse. we will get to that again in the skinny, but we want to talk about the developing story right now. million also of people are reeling from nearly a week full of nasty weather, battering much of the central u.s. >> and unfortunately much more to come. the radar shows stormy weather moving there the upper midwest, pounding the area with heavy rain, hail and wind. >> the system is producing tornados that touched down throughout the heart land. as many as 20 in texas, oklahoma and kansas. abc's rob marciano reports from the storm zone in oklahoma. >> we have another funnel coming down. >> reporter: the time to repair is over a

a lot of questions left for jeff sessions. tonight the justice department saying he did not do anything wrong, they say they got advice from the fbi not to give these -- not to disclose these meetings on a security clearance form, but as evan will tell you the fbi did not comment when we asked them about it. >> of course, john conyers calling for an investigation now. how significant is this, etchva? help us understand what this means. >> look, there does seem to be a misunderstanding somewhere in there. the justice department says they were relying on an fbi investigator who helped them fill out this form and as a matter of fact, jeff sessions' assistant initially reported a year's worth of meetings, dozens of meetings with ambassadors from not only from russia, but around the world, that the senator, then-senator had had during the past year and he was told to take them off the form. so there's some misunderstanding here that occurred. we talked to an outside expert on fillingsf-86 forms and said he should have disclosed the

is a directive by the attorney general jeff sessions laying out a new get tough on crime policy.a memo to federal prosecutors he direct the agencies to seek quote the most serious and readily provable over and reenforces the commitment to ma could lengthen sentences for drug related crimes a reversal of obama administration policy. the number of people incarcerated for drug photographs in the united states -- offenses in the united states skyrocketed from 50,000 in 1980 to nearly 470,000 in 2015. adam foss is a former prosecutor in boston and advocate for incarcerated young people. more than 1.5 million wafrptd -- watched his ted talk. walk me through with this policy shift from the u.s. attorney general what does that mean for local prosecutors? when you were a prosecutor if you got a word like this from the top how would that play out? adam: the good news is that the federal government doesn't have authority over local prosecutors, so the mandate from jeff sessions will affect prosecutors that are in the justice department but not state and local prosecutors. soledad: for prose

many critics worried has jeff sessions recused himself in the investigation. lary clinton's former running mate senator tim kaine comey firing recommended by sessions. i thought he had recused himself from russia investigation. >> one of millimeter contradictions of this firing. hours before comey's dismissal sean spicer gave no hint of what was about to go down. looking back at tuesday's press briefing spicer spoke volumes by saying nothing. >> does the president still have confidence, full confidence in fbi director james comey? >> i have no reason to believe -- identify not asked the president since the last time we spoke about this. >> the last time you spoke he has confidence? >> i don't in light of what you're telling me i don't want to start speaking on behalf of the president without speaking to him first. >> now spicer won't be at the podium for the rest of the week. sara sanders will handle today's on camera briefing while spicer fulfills his navy reserve duties at the pentagon. >>> soon after word broke cnn learned federal prosecutors issued grand ju

and again, i expect that kind of thing from jeff session. rod rosenstein was supposed to be the one who would stand up. he said at his confirmation hearing he would stand up to political pressure and do what was right. when the moment came, he didn't. he wrote that memo that is a complete farce. we all know that's not why james comey was fired. and he gave the president the cover to do what he wanted to do to try to quash this investigation. >> you know rod rosenstein. i just want to get your reaction to "the new york times" editorial saying to him -- saying directly to rod rosenstein you have one choice. appoint a special counsel who is independent of both the department and the white house. is that the best choice for rod rosenstein at this point? >> you know, i've known rod for 25 years. we were baby prosecutors together doing public corruption cases in the justice department. and when you do those cases, you're taught you have to prosecute just like you would any common criminal. you don't treat them differently because they are a politi

attorney general jeff sessions confirmed the u.s. is prepared a warrant for assange, calling his arrest a priority. for more, we're joined by democracy now! video stream, a courage foundation trustee and human rights lawyer that has been advising wikileaks and julian assange under the director of the former spanish et,ge who has indicted pinoch bush adm grounds. welcome to democracy now! thank you for joining us from berlin, germany. your response to this stunning news out of sweden? >> i cannot hide my smile, to be honest. it is such a week to celebrate. a week to celebrate. in ais a small victory long road to free julian assange and all of the people working for wikileaks, but it will finally help us lawyers to focus on the main issue, which is the persecution, political persecution, and prosecution of julian assange in the united states. we are ready now for the battle. it was long overdue decision from swedish courts. even the united nations told them to do so more than one year potentialclare his arbitrary. for the second time,

to he is getting too close to trump and jeff sessions. if jeff sessions was accused from any part of the russian dealings, why is he still being the first person donald trump calls into the office? all of those guys planned to get rid of him ever since then. that is what it is all about. of the caller from middletown is expressing what a lot of people feel now, a certain bewilderment with the different standards that this president has been held accountable to. if, at any other time in our history, we had the act of a foreign power deliberately interfering with our elections and ties from the candidate that they were supporting to that foreign power, up and down the , financial interests, , donaldsal to disclose trump's own refusal to disclose his tax returns, which every republican and democratic presidential candidate has done since watergate, we would be in a different place. there ishe problem is so little faith in government now all that these special interest financial support of candidates on both sides of the aisle, the fact that

jeff sessions and john kelly were there.he names of 394 officers who died in the line of duty were read out loud. of those, 143 law-enforcement officers, they were killed in our country in the line of duty just last year. >> each of these officers was more than just a name. they were persons who meant the whole world to someone, to a parent, sibling, spouse or a child. we also remember these heroes because that is our modest way of repaying a debt that can never be fully repaid. eric: there are more than 21000 names engraved on the wall of the national law-enforcement officer memorial. our fellow citizens who gave their lives through the generations protecting us. the ceremony, a solemn chance to say thank you to our brave police officers. arthel: attorney general sessions was on that somber assignment and he is interviewing to replace james comey at the fbi. they are considering a candidates but top democrats say they refused to vote until a special prosecutor is appointed to investigate potential ties between trump campaig

well, the attorney general, jeff sessions. he said he had recused himself from anything to do with russia, but did he in the end? we're going to hear from him in just a few minutes. excuse me a minute... hi dad. no. don't try to get up. hi, i'm julie, a right at home caregiver. and if i'd been caring for tom's dad, i would have noticed some dizziness that could lead to balance issues. that's because i'm trained to report any changes in behavior, no matter how small, so tom could have peace of mind. we'll be right there. we have to go. hey, tom. you should try right at home. they're great for us. the right care. right at home. with sleep number, there's an adjustment for that. tilt your tormentor and put those snores to sleep. does your bed do that? only at a sleep number store find final clearance prices on the best beds for couples. ayou don't have to choose just one thing. choose your trio with any 3 of 9 selections for $15.99. like new creamy lobster pasta toasted parmesan shrimp and southern-style crab cakes. come create y

done on the recommendation of the current attorney generalic jeff sessions. had recused himself because of his own contact with russians he didn't i

angelino se da a conocer una semana antes de que se cumpla el plazo fijado por el procurador general jeff sessions migraciÓn. por lo que el procurador sessions afirma que las ciudades santuario son refugios para criminales. >> la definiciÓn de jeff sessions, no hay ninguna ciudad en estados unidos que quiere proteger estos criminales peligrosos. ilia: hablando del tema de inmigraciÓn, los abogados de juan manuel montes como el primer dreamer reportado por el actual gobierno, presentaron una querella enmendada en una corte federal. en el documento alegaron que su cliente fue ilegalmente expulsado del paÍs en violaciÓn de la constituciÓn. marÍa antonieta collins hablÓ con la madre de montes. >> vi en la televisiÓn las madres que son separadas de sus hijos, no tenÍan idea del sufrimiento que sentÍan las mamÁs. marÍa antonieta: los tiene que esconder su rostro, llegÓ a la entrevista evitando los retenes de la patrulla fronteriza en california, se arriesga para hablar de su hijo el dreamer, juan manuel montes. >> me dijo, estaba en calÉxico y me pararon, y me sacaron a mÉxico y averiguaciÓn de oportuni

president trump acollegedly asking vice president mike pence and attorney general jeff sessions to exit the room after a briefing leaving the president alone with the fbi director. according the now-i famous memo described by a source close to comey, trump allegedly said i hope you can see your way of letting this go, he's a good guy. >> the president has been very clear that the account was published is not an accurate description of how the event occurred. >> reporter: but sources close to comey expect comey will testify before congress and the american people and that his memos will be made available. >> let's get to pierre thomas live in our washington bureau. pierre, back to this notion of a special counsel now, the fbi director james comey fired just last week, he was leading this investigation. this means former fbi director robert mueller steps in, this question tonight, what does it mean? does he start from scratch here? >> reporter: david, it's totally at the decession of mueller. he has 60 days to put together a team of lawyers to work with him on the case. a reminder about m

next, attorney general jeff sessions gets tough on crime. why not charge them with every possible thing we can and lock them up for a long time. >> why this form are rer -- form are are prosecutor has the general has it wrong and later the residents of for , michigan, paying water they can't d you're here to buy a car. what would help is simply being able to recognize a fair price. that's never really been possible. but along comes a radically new way to buy a car, called truecar. now it is. truecar has pricing data on every make and model, so all you have to do is search for the car you want, there it is. now you're an expert in less than a minute. this is how car buying was always meant to be. this is truecar. ♪ news about t in the the appointment of special counsel the russia probe white politics of the f.b.i. is a directive by the attorney general jeff sessions out a new get tough on crime policy. prosecutors federal he direct the agencies to seek quote the most serious and provable over and commitment to mandatory minimum sentences that

attorney general jeff sessions as well.ose tensions have been mounting for the past few weeks. the question is the straw that broke the camel's back. why did this happen now? part of what led to this in the past 24 hours director comey has been a bit under fire for some misstatements he made last week before the senate judiciary committee. perhaps the white house seized on those questions about director comey's credibility for a misstatement he made regarding huma abedin and he had said last week that she had forwarded manually hundreds and thousands of emails when we know, in fact, we learned this months ago, in fact, a lot of those e-mail sent to her then husband's anthony weiner's computer were done by automatic back up. yesterday the fbi issuing clarification, perhaps the white house seedsed on this used that opportunity to put these plans in motion. >> official word from the white house this has nothing to do with the russian investigation. but the president in his letter mentioned the russian investigation. while i gr

president clintb let jeff sessions go on an ethics question. this is the one analogy that has been well chews over is that of president nexen. nixon fired special prosecutor in october of 1973 and one of the worst political assaults. donald trump doesn't like divided sovereignty. it's something that goes back to the greek city states. the idea you have a rule of law and power is divided amoung different bodies so you have a balance. he wants control and i think that's what we're seeing tonight. >> "i do not have confidence in him, james comey, any longer. then acts so indignant." kevin, what do you think of that? >> i think that argument holds up for a short peeriate of time. it's true they have expressed they lost confidence in james comey and that only answers one question which is why didn't the president do it when he first came in to office? now, rod rosensteen detd lay out an targument in his let's today. and to go back to what john said whether you're a republican or democrat, if you're firing the fbi director who is leading an investiga

after the flynn foreign payment story came out, jeff sessions was asked? his state red cuesle from trump campaign matters would also involve him from being recused from matters involving mike flynn. he said yes that would also involve him from being recused from matters involving mike flynn. but what about matters involving paul manafort? is jeff sessions keeping himself out of anything at doj involving paul manafort or not? is he recused from matters involving trump's campaign chairman? because there are interesting questions about what's happening with the department of justice and paul manafort. right? is jeff sessions involved in any work at the department of justice concerning paul manafort or is he recused? we can report tonight that the justice department will not say. we started asking yesterday. we asked throughout the day today. we have asked it five times in five different ways, including me making the request myself personally, multiple times in as many different ways as i could think of it. they will not say whether or not he's recused. he is

watch this. >> jeff sessions' extensive record of treating all americans equally under the law is clearthroughout his decades of public service -- >> so if you are listening really hard, you can hear a laugh, and about then, about a minute after that, and i just want to explain that, because it is really low, and the pink coat protester desiree foruse is now arrested for demonstrating on capitol ground, and i want to explain to the panel. mark? >> well, i like to look at the the jury works with me, great, and if not, great. but if somebody in the halls of government is saying snag is not that obnoxious in the middle of a hearing where someone like attorney general sessions is having a comment made about him and she is dragged off an arrest and convicted of the charge. i am beyond befuddled and frustrate and it is an absurdity and demoralizing that this is what the krcriminal justice sysm has when we have yet talked about alton sterling's case here. >> we have a short time and i am trying to get everybody in. 61 er years old and she laughed because they were talking about his lis tri of

jeff sessions said, no, he hadn't. only after "the washington post" reported on sessions having those multiple russian meetings did sessions go back and retroactively change the answers he had given to the senate. but now after that cnn reports that when jeff sessions applied for his security clearance, once again he didn't disclose his russian meetings. now the department of justice spokesperson is basically saying this is all just a big misunderstanding. but if cnn's reporting bears out here that would mean we have their national security adviser mike flynn on his security clearance application not disclosing his multiple meetings with russian officials. it would mean we've also got senior presidential adviser and favored son-in-law jared kushner also on his security clearance application, also not disclosing his multiple meetings with russian officials. and now in addition to that we have the sitting attorney general of the united states on his security clearance application not disclosing his multiple meetings with

the recommendation coming from attorney general jeff sessions. joining me to discuss, louisiana's attorney general, jeff landry, josh blackman, tammy bruce, rich lowry, deroy murdock and jeff dewitt. let me go to you, attorney general, first, landry. because this letter, the -- particularly the letter from rod rosenstein, goes on to say that he was concerned about the letter that comey sent to congress on october 28th. and, again, it keeps suggesting that comey put himself above the office in some sort of way saying he would choose whether he would speak about the fbi decision to handle this and whether or not the e-mails, you know, were concealed. he said concealed was a loaded term, misstated the issue. i mean, there were a lot of misstatements and missed opportunities here by the attorney general. how does this happen in the office as important as yours and, of course, on the level of the national scale that james comey, on the fbi had? how do these things even happen? >> well, look, just the fact that it's to difficult to discuss the actions t